Reuben Thomas wrote: > how can I set up whitespace-global-mode not to mess up grep source > files? At first I thought it was that my global setting is to have > indent-tabs-mode nil, so that whenever I saved I was turning tabs into > spaces, but even when I fixed this, I was getting differences, it > turns out because some lines in e.g. src/search.c start with 8 spaces, > which whitespace-mode was then turning into single tabs on saving. > > Or are the files just not consistent? I guess I can turn off > whitespace-global-mode on grep for the moment...
Yes, that is painful. They're not consistent. Once dfa.c is merged with the one in gawk and we've made a release, I'll convert all leading TABs to spaces, like I've done in a few other projects.
